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Minister for Public Works and Sports Development Aadhav Arjuna connected Friday said the induction of MLAs from the IUML and the VCK into Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay-led Cabinet was a historical occasion.
Speaking to reporters astatine the Secretariat successful Chennai, Mr. Arjuna said the Chief Minister had formed the Cabinet connected secular societal justness principles, pursuing the imaginativeness of leaders specified arsenic Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, B.R. Ambedkar, and C.N. Annadurai.
He said the radical of Tamil Nadu, cutting crossed caste and spiritual lines, had created past by rejecting money, power, caste and religion-based politics.
Going by the committedness made by Mr. Vijay regarding a stock successful powerfulness astatine the TVK’s archetypal State league successful Vikravandi, the contiguous Tamil Nadu Cabinet serves arsenic the champion illustration of inclusive governance that the full of India would admire, Mr. Arjuna said.
Those from humble backgrounds, who had worked for the party, were fixed practice irrespective of caste, helium added.
According to him, erstwhile governments had ne'er genuinely shared powerfulness with Muslims and Christians, and had allocated powerless departments to them. “Opposition parties are falsely campaigning that a Minister from a peculiar caste has been appointed to the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department. We bash not adjacent cognize the caste of Mr. Ramesh [HR & CE Minister]. As acold arsenic the TVK is concerned, we person ne'er approached elections connected the ground of caste identity,” helium said.
He besides powerfully condemned the remarks made by DMK person and erstwhile Union Minister A. Raja connected the IUML and the VCK joining the Cabinet.
